I love Maggie, what a beautiful RLA. Welcome aboard here!
I was checking out your videos. When was Maggie pinioned? I was watching your videos, and the "Big Maggie day one" video, the wing looked freshly wounded? Perhaps Im just seeing it wrong? Were both wings pinioned, or just her right wing?
It was just the one thing that was pinioned. When Maggie first came to us his wing was freshly bleeding. Our first thought was that it was freshly done or injured or he was chewing it. After careful observation we ruled out his chewing it.
There are two causes to the wound on the wing. First of all the feathers do not grow right in that area, frequently breaking though not as much now as before. Broken blood feathers are nasty and frightening and for quite a while there was discussion of removing the feather follicle. I really didn't want to do that but if one more had to be pulled it would have been the last option.
Once I had Maggies full trust I was actually able to help preen here and remove the sheaths. It really made a difference and helped him along. To date we have been approximately six months and more feathers have come in there!
The other reason is his desire to fly is still very strong. Every so often he will begin to flap his wings and jump. If we are not quick to catch him and he doesn't land on any of the pillows or cusions he will bang it. Causing bruising and sometimes bleeding. It breaks my heart evertime. He will wait a few months before he tries again, but he will try again!
If there was a surgery or procedure or a magic genie I would do anything to give him his flight back!